Twelve-year-old Helga has more danger in her life than most beasts her age—Wrackshee slavers after her, a vicious attack by bandits that nearly kills her, a race against dragons pursuing her, and leading a daring rebellion to save her life and rescue friends and family from the insidious WooZan. And that is just the beginning. But what do you expect when you are a young beast who just can’t see the stupid rules of the world making any sense? Helga can’t accept things as they are and ends up taking on not just one, but two all-powerful, supreme tyrants in two different realms.
Helga never intended to lead a revolution.
It just sort of happened because she wouldn’t go along with the “rules of
normal” that keep tyrants in power and entire societies enslaved. Beginning on
a dangerous quest to solve some mysteries in her own past, Helga leads her
quirky comrades on a journey that will not only forever change them, but upset
ancient civilizations.
As an author, I’m drawn to eccentric,
unexpected characters: those who surprise because they hear a distant galaxy,
see a different music, create their own fragrance rather than get hooked on a
soundtrack; the child who has her own ideas about how the emperor is dressed;
the lunatics and rebels who tell stories on the boundaries. Helga’s unusual
story will take readers to worlds they never imagined—definitely a whole new
ride.
Time and again, the unconventional heroine
and her eccentric comrades overcome ominous tyrants and black-hearted slavers,
not by battling to the last beast standing, but by being the first beast to
think differently.
Helga: Out of Hedgelands is divided into
three books which introduce the epic saga of the Wood Cow clan and their role
in overturning centuries of slavery and tyranny. This story will continue in
additional volumes of the Wood Cow Chronicles now in development. Over the
series of current and future volumes, the entire history of the Wood Cow clan,
the fall of Maev Astuté, and the coming of Lord Farseeker to the Outer Rings,
will be told.
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Author Rick
Johnson
I am a native of the Great Plains, having
grown up on a farm in the Platte River Valley of western Nebraska. I love the
wild beauty of the Plains and nearby Rocky Mountains--the too hot, too cold,
too empty, too full of life extremes. Typically, the awesomely diverse and the
awesomely stark are much the same, even as they are different. Although I have
lived in Michigan, North Carolina, and British Columbia, the western plains,
mountains, and desert are in my heart.
As my day job, for over thirty years I have
been a faculty member and administrator in higher education. Teaching broadly
in the liberal arts, including creative writing, my professional publications
include educational materials, poems, and 28 stories for young readers. During
my spare hours, I have also collected and carefully studied the records of
former times upon which the Wood Cow Chronicles are based. It is my privilege
to bring this astonishing saga to light.
The Wood Cow Chronicles have been
researched and written with the irreplaceable assistance of Barbara, my beloved
wife of more than thirty-five years, and our children. Indeed, the essential
research into the history of the Wood Cows has been conducted during the odd
hours of family reading and storytelling "around the campfire" as we
say--even when there is no campfire! This research continues and grows richer
as our family expands across generations and continents.
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